(39 votes)
After seeing this grayish dartboard below, and being a regular fan of Might Optical Illusions blog, the question arises almost spontaneously – Do the light and dark regions, as indicated by the arrows, appear to be different? Which region is actually darker? Believe it or not, they are identical! Errrm…Well, at least they should be! [...]
(71 votes)
Arjen Goldschmidt has sent in what appears to be the best (proof-endorsed) color optical illusion I have seen up to date! Below examples showcase embedded lines of seemingly different colors. The reason they look different is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. So without us even [...]
(74 votes)
This is one of my childhood’s favorite visual illusions, one you could literally have spent hours playing with! Unfortunately, back then I wasn’t aware it was invented by C.E. Benham, and that it already had a name – Benham’s Disk. It was pretty popular back in the “old days”, as you could easily make your [...]
(50 votes)
Color-adapting category is one of the rare sections on this site that almost exclusively contains true optical illusions. The effect we showcase most often, usually makes two parts of a picture seem as if they were of a different color, even though they’re actually identical. This can often be proved by removing the contextual background, [...]
(67 votes)
As we concluded last Monday, occasionally “repeating” somewhat similar illusions shouldn’t be a problem (at least this is what the majority has decided). In practice, the only similarity between today’s animated gif and previous submissions of this type lyes in the way they work. I remember like it was yesterday when John Shadowski first introduced [...]
(57 votes)
Remember when South Park was in its very beginning? I remember there was this crazy dude character named Towelie, who was in fact a speaking towel whose only interest was getting stoned (?!). Hilarious! If my memory serves me well, he was a result of a terrible army experiment gone wrong. Dunno why this animation [...]
(10 votes)
When we’re talking about color adapting and stuff, let me show you this pic thats been cluttering my desktop for a while; it’s relatively known effect, but when I tell you how both sets of chess figurines are exactly the same color, you’ll think I went mad! I haven’t fully tested this in Adobe Photoshop, [...]
(43 votes)
Old time viewers will probably experience some form of deja vu, but there is no harm repeating good stuff! Even the motive is a little different in today’s photo. So, how would you react if someone was trying to convince you that both of the peacocks in the painting below are exactly the same? I’m [...]
